Crunch Two Data Sets, Call Me in the Morning
May 22nd, 2012
Patients not given discretion over data-mining of digitized health records despite serious ramifications.
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Paperless Medicine?
January 28th, 2010
Electronic medical records that follow patients from doctor to doctor. Hospitals with instantaneous online access to lab results and health histories. Disease researchers with...
Physician network to use genomic-based preventive healthcare
December 8th, 2008
MDVIP, Inc., a national network of physicians based in Boca Raton, Fla., is collaborating with a personal genomics testing company in an effort to...
EHRs don’t save Texas doc time, money or paper
October 10th, 2008
I can’t stand it any longer! This nonsense that electronic health records will save money must stop! We have a six-man orthopedic group in...
Content of weblogs written by health professionals
October 1st, 2008
BACKGROUND: Medical weblogs (“blogs”) have emerged as a new connection between health professionals and the public. OBJECTIVE: To examine the scope and content of...
IT bill draws concerns
July 28th, 2008
Health information technology legislation passed by a House committee last week is being called a good start in what ultimately is a challenging and...
Our Pen-and-Paper Doctors
June 24th, 2008
With electronic health records seen widely as a way to make medical care better and possibly cheaper, it is disturbing how slowly they are...
EHR sent this physician back to efficiency of handwritten records
June 23rd, 2008
Regarding “EHRs must be made irresistible, but for now are clearly inadequate” (Letters, May 26): I am one of those doctors mentioned by letter...
Patient Privacy at Issue in Vermont’s Bid for Electronic Health Records
June 18th, 2008
When you go to a new doctor, you probably don’t pay much attention to the document you are required to read and sign that...
EHRs must be made irresistible, but for now are clearly inadequate
May 26th, 2008
Regarding “Selling the bitter EMR pill” (AMNews, April 7): The article, in essence, asks how do we convince the recalcitrant physician to swallow the...